Hidden camera in Airbnb accommodation

Transparency matters in lots of areas, particularly in light of technological advances in surveillance technology, as a family from New Zealand found to their cost on a visit to Cork last month while on a tour of Europe.

Their Airbnb host had installed a hidden camera in the living room of their accommodation. Despite Airbnb’s assertion that it exercises a “zero tolerance” to such breach of privacy, the family found a distinct lack of transparency around their tortuous investigation process.